How To Beat Volo - Pokemon Legends Arceus Final Boss Guide - The Hardest Fight In Pokemon History?

How To Beat Volo - Pokémon Legends Arceus Final Boss Guide - The Hardest Fight In Pokemon History?

Volo is the final boss in Pokemon Legends Arceus, and is probably the single most difficult trainer battle in the entire history of mainline Pokemon games. If not, he’s right up there with Red in HeartGold, and Cynthia in Platinum. This dude literally breaks the rules, requiring players to defeat a team of 8 Pokemon, uninterrupted, without any chance to heal your team.

After getting steamrolled when trying to brute force the fight with the team I used all game, I decided to regroup and develop a special strategy to beat him, a FIRST for a mainline Pokemon game! At least in my experience. Until now, mashing the A button has been generally the go to technique when it comes to beating these games. But not here! Legends Arceus truly breaks new ground for the Pokemon franchise, with a post game final boss that will absolutely destroy you if you don't have a proper team, or good strategy in place.

Of course, this is just what worked for me. I'm sure there are many other ways to beat him, many other team compositions, and in days I can guarantee someone will upload a video where his entire team is swept by a Magikarp.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:03 - Breaking Down Volo's BROKEN TEAM
3:46 - Building A Team To Take Down Volo & Developing A Strategy
5:31 - How To Get Tons of XP and Level Up Your Pokemon Quickly During The Post Game
7:51 - The Final Fight - Beating Volo!
16:14 - Conclusion

[wnther]

Volo is now my favorite character. I thought he was suspicious after he was litterally at every major plot point. At first i thought he was Arcues in Human form but the twist of him and Giratina working together to destroy the World and arcues. This game had a low expectation but its the Best pokemon game out now.

[cranberryjuice]

During the story I was like “Volo is DEFINITELY a bad guy, gonna be one of the final battles in the game I bet”, but then the credits came during the mainline story and then I said “oh, I guess I judged him too much. he must be good then.” and then this happened.

[riptideanomy]

Samurott was by far my best friend through and through. The fact I finished the fight with ceaseless edge with him was the best thing ever

[grimm]

I’m gonna be honest, I always had a weird gut feeling about Volo, but I would push it aside. And then once the boss fight came I was like “I FREAKING KNEW IT!”

[Amphipteree]

The volo fight was a complete shock to me when it happened because y'know I thought this man was nice and he just straight up tries to rob us and then proceeds to send a legendary on us 😃

[jacobevans]

Cresselia is also able to learn Ice Beam. It's super effective and helps a lot with PP management in the two Giratina fights.

[amg]

Volo didn’t give off villain vibes. He seemed interested in your story and was very friendly to the point where he helped you when no one else could. Sure he was present every time something important occurred but I assumed his intentions were pure. Then you realize he was behind the distortion on his quest to find God by summoning Satan himself. This twist was great because you realize he only helped you for his own self interest.

[swwetsour]

Little tip: Catch the Level 85 Alpha Garchomp in the early morning when it falls asleep (it's catch rate is mega boosted), it's in the South Western part of the Alabaster Iceland's. Highly recommend adding that additional firepower to the team

[armanduki]

The Origin Giratina got me with the pants down. At my second attempt, Basculegion with Ominous Wind and Ice Fang did the magic with the two giratinas
It was a hell of a battle. I’d like to repeat it as much as I want

[jacobg]

One thing to remember is that even though you can't heal, the cutscene between his 6th team member and Giratina counts as in between battles, which means the game WILL switch whoever is out to the top of your party list. Bit of a troll move when Giratina attacks before you can do anything and the Lucario I intended be sacrificed was instead switched for the party member integral to my strategy.

[boogashigi]

He was easily one of the hardest fights I’ve ever had in a Pokémon game. I had Cresselia too she was the MVP. I put calm mind on my Cresselia though. Sylveon helped me tremendously as well

[bobayden]

This fight would be hard in a normal game but I find that the arceus mechanics make this fight way harder because it pretty much forces 1 for 1 trades (due to after a pokemon faints the enemy can send in a pokemon that can immediately attack without the option of switching)

[michaelvisosky]

Rushed through the post game and reached this fight 8-14 levels underleveled. I got mad good RNG and accidentally played super well too, and it might just have been the most intense battle I've ever played.

I led with Wyrdeer, which I switched into Rapidash and took down Spiritomb. Garchomp then one shot Rapidash and I brought it down with Decidueye. Togekiss erased my birb and I beat it with Luxray, who got crushed by Lucario. Zoroark finished Lucario but then got destroyed by Arcanine, who I destroyed in turn with Golduck.

I had him down to just Roserade, who diced Golduck, and then it was just me and Wyrdeer, who brought it home by the skin of his teeth.

I popped off so hard

And then immediately got clapped by Giratina.

[justaweebwhosimps]

Volo's Design is absolutely amazing, his vilian story is also amazing for a pokemon game. best villian out there.

[hclark]

i had no idea this fight was going to be this hard. i had a team of Samurott, Alpha Zoroark, Alpha Gallade, Alpha Lucario, Cresselia, and Dialga. max revives we’re very helpful, and my Samurott took the hits when i needed to heal. it was such a tight fight, i was fighting for that win 🤣 i absolutely love Volo, he’s definitely my new favorite pokémon character!

[MisterBlightside]

I'm sitting around with my non-legendary team like "Hey Volo, can I attack yet? No? Ok =["

[bonniethebunny]

one of the most enjoyable hardest fights i've ever seen in pokemon, and i beaten it with my own story team without legendaries, felt so goood

[letlemon.]

THANKS SO MUCH! This was a ridiculous fight that I finally completed with your help!

[doukzu]

This is the only fight I had to be overleveled for, absolutely loved it. I was getting swamped by Volo- so I trained and beat him, then BAM my last three are swept by Giratina. Probably the best Pokemon battle I've had ever, not speaking competitively. I also like how through the entire game it was normal for my Pokemon to faint, it felt like battles actually had weight and excitement.

It felt good and challenging to NOT do a nuzlocke for once.

[PokeDude]

I only got past his Garchomp when I realized Hyper Beam can be used multiple times without recharging in this game while I was grinding.